The body length is 75-88 cm, the tail is rather short, the wings are wide, up to 2.4 m in span, the legs are feathered to the toes.
Distributed in Eurasia, Africa and North America from forest tundra to deserts.
They nest on the ground, rocks or trees. They feed on small and medium-sized vertebrates (they look out while hovering in the air, or lie in wait while sitting on an elevated place), sometimes on carrion. The number is declining. 1 subspecies in the IUCN Red List.
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